Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.

Read

June 10, 2007

Global Justice for all life on the planet by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement
promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and
injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society
as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.

Read

May 14, 2007

Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden ,
The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories.
The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.

Read

June 5, 2007

Israel's 40 Years of Occupation: From Democratic State to Violent Oppressor Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. Over that time, Israel's image has shifted from that of an open society set amid a sea of despotic regimes to that of an international pariah.
by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.

Read

June 1, 2007

The U.S. Social Forum: Our Best Bet to Turn This Country Around Want justice, peace, a better life for people in this country? Want to show solidarity with international struggles? The best opportunity to do this is about to happen and you're invited.
by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.

Read

May 14, 2007

Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World
The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor.
by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.

Read

May 29, 2007

Looking HIV And AIDS Issues Through Gender And Human Rights Lenses, by Sirajul Islam, published in Countercurrents.org While analysing gender, HIV and AIDS and human rights, we acknowledged that when men are fighting a deadly human immunodeficiency virus, women are fighting both a deadly virus and wide-ranging inequity in trying to defeat the hazards of HIV and AIDS. We understood that from corner to corner of the world, they face a number of conditions which swell their possibility of HIV infection in gender-specific ways

Read

May 3, 2007

Child Pornography and Human Trafficking: Cancun's Dark Side,
by Heather Gehlert, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties, A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them

Read

April 21, 2007

Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ),
the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?

Read

April 19, 2007

Iraq Has Two Virginia Techs Every Day, by Juan Cole, withJuancole.com, and published in Countercurrents.org What is happening in Iraq is the most massive manmade human tragedy of the young century

Read

March 17, 2007

I am the new long awaited prophet to help humanity through this century and beyond by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community In order to create a harmonious and compassionate Global Community, there are laws I ask everyone to comply with.

Read

March 16, 2007

Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global CommunityNature Law Nature Law, a fundamental pillar of our social values

Read

March 17, 2007

God LawRevelations for the 21st Century and beyondMessage sent by God to the Global Community

Read

March 8, 2007

Letter sent by Grassroots Women to the Global CommunityGrassroots Women International Women’s Day 2007 Statement
Strengthen Women’s Resistance: Oppose Imperialism’s Intensifying Attacks! Assert Women’s Basic Human Rights! In Canada, a patriarchal resurgence and ever-more entrenched systemic racism are intensifying the exploitation, oppression, and economic exclusion of working class, (im)migrant, refugee and Indigenous women. We are hard hit by
the neo-liberal policies of the Canadian government of liberalization, deregulation and privatization which leave working class women unable to earn a decent income or to access affordable housing, health, and other services. Amidst
rising corporate profiteering, government corruption, and military spending, government funding for childcare and women’s programs have been slashed. The insultingly paltry and unjustly distributed $100/month childcare benefit
has been a slap in the face for women demanding a genuinely universal national childcare program. (Im)migrant and refugee women face the punitive and exploitative nature of immigration policies such as the Live-in Caregiver
Program and unjust deportations. Indigenous women face the ongoing colonization of their land and resources.

Read

March 9, 2007

The Crime of War in Iraq , by DR. Charles Mercieca , International Association of Educators for World Peace,
Professor Emeritus, Alabama A and M University, Environmental Protection, Human Rights & Disarmament What is the purpose of having rules and regulations when we can disregard them at will at any moment we like? Since the early days of human existence, those that transgressed rules and regulations to the detriment of others always tended to be punished, sooner or later. In order for us to understand the seriousness of such violations, we need to understand properly the significance
of laws. In order to do that, we must have a clear concept of the four hierarchical laws of which ascetical writers spoke over the past several centuries.

Read

March 10, 2007

GREAT SHIFT OF POWER, by Triaka Smith,
The CONSTITUTION of UNITED DIVERSITY, The New Earth CooperativeTo explain, since "Justice" is the principle of Moral
Rightness, its a rational view that to force a human being
into submission when that person has neither threatened
nor caused harm to others, is both Irrational Enslavement
and Morally Unjust. In this connection, it's worth noting
that while civilized people have voluntarily agreed to make
illegal the Initiation of Physical Force by one human upon
another, as in murder, rape, and robbery, no government
on earth has yet been held to the same Moral Standard.

Read

March 10, 2007

Losing Focus: Peace And Justice Movement In Britain At Crossroad, by Ramzy Baroud, author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronology of a People’s Struggle published in Countercurrents.org I believe that the action of a true peace and justice activist must stem from concern for humanity, not from racism and prejudice; however, to suppress freedom of expression, settle personal grievances at the expense of a most colorful and ideologically diverse movement, thus the honorable cause it stands for,
is to do an immense disservice to all of us concerned with bringing to a halt a most bloody and raging conflict in the Middle East.

Read

March 5, 2007

Letter sent by Connie Fogal, leader of CAP/PAC, to the Global CommunityConnie Fogal, leader of CAP/PAC, identifies critical issues and solutions for Canadians

Read

March 2, 2007

The Criminality of War, by DR. Charles Mercieca , International Association of Educators for World Peace,
Professor Emeritus, Alabama A and M University, Environmental Protection, Human Rights & Disarmament

Read

March 5, 2007

Is U.S. Global Warming Pollution Violating Human Rights Law?,
by Megan Tady, The NewStandard, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth, As the ice they depend on for their way of life melts away around them, indigenous people of the Arctic are taking a crack at Washington in international court.

Help Mobilize for Jan. 27-29! MARCH ON WASHINGTON TO END THE WAR!, by United for Peace and Justice UnitedforPeace.org To send the strongest, clearest message to the new Congress

Read

December 25, 2006

In Search of a Criminal: Donald Rumsfeld's Name Tops the List of Accused of War Crimes , by Alexia Garamfalvi, t r u t h o u t

Read

December 21, 2006

Apartheid in the Holy Land, by Desmond Tutu, published in The Guardian, Desmond Tutu is the former Archbishop of Cape Town and
chairman of South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission. This address was given April 29, 2002 at a conference on Ending the Occupation held in Boston, Massachusetts, earlier this month. A longer version appears in the current edition of Church Times.

Read

December 19th, 2006

Iraqi Women's Bodies Are Battlefields for War Vendettas, by Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund for Women, an AlterNet staff writer